posted at 7:21 pm on September 25, 2013 by Erika Johnsen

A short yet painful addendum to my earlier post on the Department of Health and Human Service’s new report excitedly detailing the “lower than expected” premiums that Americans will soon be paying under ObamaCare — which, of course, is just a fancy, roundabout way of saying that premiums will still be increasing for many Americans, just not by quite as much as they once projected. As Avik Roy pointed out, the report doesn’t actually include price comparisons to current rates, which makes the entire exercise kind of useless in terms of providing practical information for American consumers.

In response to a question from Fox’s Ed Henry about why today’s HHS’s report wasn’t based on more of a straight-up “apples-to-apples” comparison of what American consumers will pay for their premiums between this year and next year, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney had an… er, creative perspective to offer. Via NRO:

There were numerous projections about what these exchanges — which, by the way, did not exist before, including the multitude of plans that will not be available to consumers that did not, that were not in place before. So, obviously, this is not an apples-to-apples. It’s a, you know, apple full of worms compared to an apple that’s fresh and delicious…

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“On behalf of the millions of working men and women we represent and the families they support, we can no longer stand silent in the face of elements of the Affordable Care Act that will destroy the very health and wellbeing of our members along with millions of other hardworking Americans.”~James P. Hoffa, et. al., AFL-CIO

Moochelle tried a simliar spin today comparing store-bought lobsters wasting away the weeks in that tank to fresh, delicious ones caught that morning and flown straight to her WH cauldron by charter jet when their dog isn’t riding in it.